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enTuesday Recap: New Yorker App, aTV Flash 4.5, MacTech Conference Updateshttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/tuesday_recap_new_yorker_app_atv_flash_45_mactech_conference_updates
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u220903/new_yorker_app_200px.png" alt="The New Yorker app" width="200" height="150" class="graphic-right" />Publishers continue to flock to Apple's iOS platform, and this week <em>The New Yorker</em> finally arrives thanks to Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite, along with an update to <em>The Washington Post</em> which adds a host of new features. But before you go sauntering off to read those, why not spend a few more minutes on MacLife.com and soak in the day's news for this terrific Tuesday, August 7, 2012?</p><h3>The New Yorker Arrives on iOS</h3><p><a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2012/08/new-yorker-on-iphone.html" target="_blank">Adobe's Digital Publishing blog has announced</a> the debut of Condé Nast's <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id370614765?mt=8" target="_blank"><em>The New Yorker</em></a> app for iOS, built using the company's Digital Publishing Suite and featuring "every story and cartoon included in the print edition, made more engaging through smart use of interactivity." The free universal app is serving up the August 13 and 20, 2012 issue free to everyone who downloads it from the App Store, with future issues available via in-app purchase. (Back issues are only available to subscribers through a web-only archive.) New issues are delivered each Monday, and the added audio, video and slideshow content included on the iPad looks to make this a must-have download.</p><h3>FireCore Keeps First-Gen Apple TVs Humming with aTV Flash 4.5</h3><p>Anyone out there still have one of those prehistoric, hard drive-packing first-generation Apple TVs? If so, <a href="http://blog.firecore.com/8664" target="_blank">a new aTV Flash update today from the folks at FireCore, LLC</a> will give you something worth booting it up for. In addition to the installer now being compatible with OS X Mountain Lion, aTV Flash 4.5 adds active memory management, which FireCore claims will help "keep things running smoothly" as well as the ability to copy files between playlists. Smart Installer bugs have been squashed, and other "miscellaneous improvements and fixes" are also on hand. If you already have aTV Flash installed on your white Apple TV, there's no need to reinstall -- simply head to the Maintenance &gt; Manage Plugins menu and update away.</p><h3>MacTech Conference Heading to Minneapolis, Boston and More</h3><p><em>MacTech</em> magazine has five more dates pinned on the calendar for their current U.S. tour, and that doesn't even include the three-day <a href="http://tracking.mactech.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com%2Fconference&amp;i=6&amp;d=88YX8461-8999-4589-Y5X3-55X460X33ZW4&amp;e=susie@maclife.com&amp;a=21W76Y0V-7U78-4WXU-Y92Z-Z75VYUZ596W1" target="_blank">MacTech Conference</a> taking place October 17-19 in Los Angeles. MacTech Boot Camp is headed toy <a href="http://tracking.mactech.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com%2Fbootcamp%2FMinneapolis&amp;i=1&amp;d=88YX8461-8999-4589-Y5X3-55X460X33ZW4&amp;e=susie@maclife.com&amp;a=21W76Y0V-7U78-4WXU-Y92Z-Z75VYUZ596W1" target="_blank">Minneapolis on September 5</a>, followed by <a href="http://tracking.mactech.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com%2Fbootcamp%2FSanDiego&amp;i=4&amp;d=88YX8461-8999-4589-Y5X3-55X460X33ZW4&amp;e=susie@maclife.com&amp;a=21W76Y0V-7U78-4WXU-Y92Z-Z75VYUZ596W1" target="_blank">Orange County/San Diego on November 27</a> before winding down in <a href="http://tracking.mactech.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com%2Fbootcamp%2FMiami&amp;i=5&amp;d=88YX8461-8999-4589-Y5X3-55X460X33ZW4&amp;e=susie@maclife.com&amp;a=21W76Y0V-7U78-4WXU-Y92Z-Z75VYUZ596W1" target="_blank">Miami on December 5</a>. The company will also host MacTech InDepth events on <a href="http://tracking.mactech.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com%2FBoston&amp;i=2&amp;d=88YX8461-8999-4589-Y5X3-55X460X33ZW4&amp;e=susie@maclife.com&amp;a=21W76Y0V-7U78-4WXU-Y92Z-Z75VYUZ596W1" target="_blank">September 27-28 in Boston</a> as well as <a href="http://tracking.mactech.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com%2FSanJose&amp;i=3&amp;d=88YX8461-8999-4589-Y5X3-55X460X33ZW4&amp;e=susie@maclife.com&amp;a=21W76Y0V-7U78-4WXU-Y92Z-Z75VYUZ596W1" target="_blank">November 7 in San Jose</a>. If you register for the flagship MacTech Conference before August 31, you'll save $300; all other events can save $200 by registering now, and includes lunch.</p><h3>Washington Post Relaunches iPhone App</h3><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ask-the-post/post/an-update-to-our-iphone-app-take-it-for-a-spin/2012/08/03/4855c7d0-dd95-11e1-9ff9-1dcd8858ad02_blog.html" target="_blank"><em>The Washington Post</em> has announced a relaunch of their iPhone app</a>, which now features a cleaner, more intuitive design. Local readers of the newspaper will see new features especially for them, as well as traffic updates from Dr. Gridlock, traffic tweets and a Metro map with arrival times and alerts. The new app features fully customizable navigation, so readers can easily select their favorite sections, which can also be downloaded for offline reading, making it easier to use the app on the go. Version 2.0 also features an updated weather section including 7-day forecasts, radar images and weather alerts, in-line images, even more photo galleries, and enhanced iOS 5 support. The update is <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wash-post/id352509417?mt=8" target="_blank">available now from the App Store</a>.</p><h3>Apple Pulls Genius Ad Spots from Olympics</h3><p>Apple's recent Genius-themed "Mac Guy" ads appear to be already a distant memory, with the trio having disappeared from Olympic television broadcasts as quickly as they first arrived. After debuting with mostly a thud at the opening ceremonies, Apple's ad agency has confirmed that the spots have been pulled -- but claims that was the plan all along. <a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/183149/apple-pulls-embarassing-mac-guy-ads-from-olympic-broadcasts/" target="_blank">But that didn't stop website Cult of Mac for attempting to take at least some of the credit</a> for their disappearance after starting a campaign to turn Mac Guy into the next big internet meme. The commercials are still present and accounted for on Apple's YouTube page as well as the company's website, so… it's not like they all that embarrassed by them...<br /><br /><em>Follow this article’s author, <a href="http://twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank">J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter</a></em></p><p>&nbsp;</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/tuesday_recap_new_yorker_app_atv_flash_45_mactech_conference_updates#commentsNewsApple CommercialsaTV FlashConde Nastdaily recapFireCoreMacTech ConferenceThe New YorkerWashington PostiPadiPhoneiPodMacTue, 07 Aug 2012 21:00:03 +0000J.R. Bookwalter14742 at http://www.maclife.comThe Week's 10 Hottest Apple News Storieshttp://www.maclife.com/article/gallery/weeks_10_hottest_apple_news_stories
<!--paging_filter--><p>It's the top in news for the week for Apple. Much going on, as always, a perpertual newscycle campaign. So we break it down for you and give you the scoop without the fuss.</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/gallery/weeks_10_hottest_apple_news_stories#commentsGalleryConde NastFlashiphonenew yorkernewsNvidiaSeagateFri, 20 May 2011 21:27:58 +0000J Keirn-Swanson11047 at http://www.maclife.comConde Nast Rolls Out Four New iPad Magazine Subscriptionshttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/conde_nast_rolls_out_four_new_ipad_magazine_subscriptions
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u220903/vanity_fair_katy_perry_200px.jpg" alt="Vanity Fair Katy Perry cover" width="200" height="150" class="graphic-right" />Flush from their apparent success with <em>The New Yorker</em>, publisher Conde Nast followed up as promised on Monday with four new magazine titles for the iPad, all of which use Apple’s new in-app subscription billing.<br /><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/16/conde-nast-rolls-out-four-new-ipad-magazine-subscriptions-new-yorker-launch-successful/" target="_blank"><br />MacRumors is reporting</a> that in-app subscriptions are now available for four more Conde Nast magazine apps: <a href="http://appshopper.com/entertainment/vanity-fair-ipad-edition" target="_blank"><em>Vanity Fair</em></a>, <a href="http://appshopper.com/lifestyle/glamour-2" target="_blank"><em>Glamour</em></a>, <a href="http://appshopper.com/sports/golf%C2%A0digest-magazine" target="_blank"><em>Golf Digest</em></a> and <a href="http://appshopper.com/lifestyle/allure-magazine-2" target="_blank"><em>Allure</em></a>. While the publisher is mum on numbers for their first release, <em>The New Yorker</em>, they’re marching ahead with further titles after promising there would be more to come.<br /><br />“Today’s rollout follows last Monday's successful debut of iPad subscriptions for <em>The New Yorker</em>, which was the top-grossing app for most of the week,” Conde Nast president Bob Sauerberg announced in an internal memo. “We’re clearly tapping into the enormous appetite consumers have for our award-winning content. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to bring this next important step in our digital growth to market on schedule. We should all be exceedingly proud of each and every milestone.”<br /><br />That certainly sounds like success to us, and following up so quickly with an additional four titles would seem to indicate the same. Each of the new titles are monthly publications which will run $1.99 per issue or $19.99 per year, with current print subscribers getting the iPad version for free.<br /><br />MacRumors also notes that, in keeping with Apple’s new pricing guidelines, the same magazines are also available directly through their respective websites for the same $19.99 per year price. Conde Nast is expected to roll out three more subscription titles by month’s end, with <em>Wired</em>, <em>Self</em> and <em>GQ</em> joining the current five.<br /><br /><em>Follow this article’s author, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank">J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter</a><br /><br />(Image courtesy of MacRumors)</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/conde_nast_rolls_out_four_new_ipad_magazine_subscriptions#commentsNewsApp StoreApple Inc.Conde NastIn-app subscriptionsmagazinespublisherssubscriptionsiPadTue, 17 May 2011 13:50:35 +0000J.R. Bookwalter10972 at http://www.maclife.comApple Nabs Conde Nast for iPad Magazine Subscriptionshttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_nabs_conde_nast_ipad_magazine_subscriptions
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u220903/new_yorker_may_cover_200px.jpg" alt="New Yorker May 16 cover" width="200" height="150" class="graphic-right" />If you like to read magazines on your iPad, you’ll have plenty of reasons to rejoice in the coming months as more and more publishers get on board Apple’s subscription bandwagon. The latest is Conde Nast with <em>The New Yorker</em>, which is now available.<br /><br /><a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110508/apple-brings-conde-nast-aboard-the-subscription-bandwagon-starting-with-the-new-yorker/" target="_blank">AllThingsD’s MediaMemo is reporting</a> that publisher Conde Nast has hopped on board the Apple subscription bandwagon -- at least for one title right now. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-new-yorker-magazine/id370614765?mt=8" target="_blank">A revamped <em>New Yorker</em> magazine has popped up on the App Store</a>, with the weekly publication now going for $5.99 per month compared with the company’s previous model of $4.99 per issue.<br /><br />That works out to only $1.50 per issue, and iPad subscribers can save even more by going with the annual subscription for $59.99 -- almost $10 less than a print subscription, which works out more like $1.15 per issue. Of course, if you already subscribe to <em>The New Yorker</em>, your iPad access will be free. MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka notes that individual issues will continue to be sold for $4.99 each.<br /><br />Conde Nast’s plans come on the heels of last week’s announcement from Hearst Corp. to offer a range of magazines via Apple’s subscription service starting with the July issues of <em>Esquire</em>, <em>Popular Mechanics</em> and <em>O: The Oprah Magazine</em>. Those monthly publications will sell for $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year.<br /><br />While Conde Nast is happy to jump on board Apple’s subscription train, they’re not relying on the iPad exclusively -- the company announced in February that they also plan to publish on Google’s Android platform, although those plans have yet to materialize.<br /><br />Apple’s subscription plans were something of a controversy after being announced back in February, when News Corp.’s <em>The Daily</em> was announced as the first to take advantage of it. Cupertino takes 30 percent of the pie, much in the same manner they do with iOS apps themselves -- but it would seem that the massive iPad market share is simply too much for these publishers to walk away from, and one by one they seem to be getting on the money train.<br /><br /><em>Follow this article’s author, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank">J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter</a><br /><br />(Image courtesy of AllThingsD and The New Yorker)</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_nabs_conde_nast_ipad_magazine_subscriptions#commentsNewsApp StoreApple Inc.Conde NastIn-app subscriptionsmagazinesnew yorkersubscriptionsiPadMon, 09 May 2011 13:09:43 +0000J.R. Bookwalter10897 at http://www.maclife.comCondé Nast's iPad Magazine Apps Too Large?http://www.maclife.com/article/news/cond%C3%A9_nasts_ipad_magazine_apps_too_large
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="../../files/u12635/the_new_yorker_short_.jpg" width="380" height="332" /></p><p><a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100928/conde-nasts-ipad-apps-are-too-portly-blame-adobe/" target="_blank"><em>All Things D</em></a> reports that the file size of Condé Nast's magazine apps are too huge! The problem has been ongoing since <em>Wired's </em>first issue took up almost a half a gigabyte of memory on our beloved device, and has spilled over into the magazine publisher's latest iPad digital magazine, <em>The New Yorker</em>. Each issue takes up 173 megabytes, and that's for a weekly edition.</p><p>The <em>ATD</em> technology blog spoke with New Yorker Deputy Editor Pam McCarthy, who said that the problem may soon be fixed. She attributed the weighty apps to the backbone of the digital copies: an Adobe program that functions like an image reader.</p><p>Using Adobe's technology to create these digital issues means exporting large, image-rich layouts, instead of stripped-down text with only a few images. Doing this creates large files, which in turn creates large app releases for end-users.</p><p>McCarthy ended the conversation by saying, "The goal is to be all HTML, and we will be."</p><p>The biggest problem with magazines using apps as their main distribution method is Apple's limit on download size. Only apps under 20MBs are allowed to be downloaded over a 3G connection. So, if you wanted to download a magazine like <em>Wired</em> or <em>The New Yorker</em>, you'd be forced to connect to WiFi. By shrinking the size of the downloads, publishers may be able to get around this snag.</p><p>Of course, a better solution may be a piece of software that Apple has been <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_may_launch_newspaper_subscriptions_ipad" target="_blank">rumored</a> to be working on, but there's no confirmation that Apple will release a newspaper or magazine section for iBooks anytime soon.</p><p>You can read the full article on <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100928/conde-nasts-ipad-apps-are-too-portly-blame-adobe/" target="_blank"><em>All Things D</em></a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Follow this article's author, <a href="http://twitter.com/coryb" target="_blank">Cory Bohon on Twitter</a></em>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/cond%C3%A9_nasts_ipad_magazine_apps_too_large#commentsNewsAppsConde NastiPadiPad AppsiPhone appsiPod AppsmagazinesiPadiPhoneiPodWed, 29 Sep 2010 19:07:57 +0000Cory Bohon8386 at http://www.maclife.comWired's iPad Edition Hits the App Storehttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/wireds_ipad_edition_hits_app_store
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u12635/Wired_magazine_iPad_large.jpg" width="380" height="506" /></p><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/mag_editors_letter/" target="_blank"><em>Wired</em></a> announced today that their iPad edition of the magazine is hitting virtual App Store newsstands everywhere.</p><p><em>Wired</em> is employing a new technology from Adobe that allows them to publish their magazine in both print and digital, while keeping the same authoring and design tools they are accustomed to.</p><p>"It has all of the visual impact of paper, enhanced by interactive elements like video and animated graphics," says Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of <em>Wired</em>. "We can offer you a history of Mars landings that lets you explore the red planet yourself. We can take you inside Trent Reznor's recording studio and let you listen to snippets of his work in progress. And we can show you exactly how Pixar rafted each frame of its new movie, <em>Toy Story 3</em>."</p><p>The new iPad edition of <em>Wired</em> Magazine [<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wired-magazine/id373903654?mt=8" target="_blank">iTunes link</a>] is available starting today on the App Store for $4.99 for the June issue. You can see a video of it in action below.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><object id="flashObj" width="404" height="436" data="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/1813626064?isVid=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=88021017001&amp;playerID=1813626064&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/1813626064?isVid=1" /><param name="name" value="flashObj" /><param name="flashvars" value="videoId=88021017001&amp;playerID=1813626064&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p> <p>via <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/26/wireds_ipad_edition_arrives_converted_from_flash_by_adobe.html" target="_blank">AppleInsider</a></p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/wireds_ipad_edition_hits_app_store#commentsNewsApp StoreConde Nastdigital publishingwirediPadWed, 26 May 2010 16:55:08 +0000Cory Bohon7023 at http://www.maclife.com